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i am looking to password protect a text file and am looking into doing so by adding a tool?

Pls point a beginner in the right direction
Thank you in advance

For files that I want to be protected I use PGP and just decrypt/encrypt the current window. You can put this to a hotkey (like Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D etc.). You have to disable Auto-Saving though, because otherwise you would get a readable version on your disk.

This is not quite the same as having a password for a file (that could be different for each file). It's more that only some people (in this case only me) can view and edit the file.

And it's not only one key away:

Opening an encrypted file: Open the file, decrypt (and verify) the current window (available by hotkey or via taskbar), copy the output to clipboard, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+V.

Saving: encrypt the current window (maybe select the appropiate key), Ctrl+S.